Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai openly revealed that he was a warrior from the Myriad Kingdoms Domain, provoking Li Tiankui of the Azure Hero Domain. Li Tiankui explained that a sword cultivator from Lin Bai’s Domain had caused the Azure Hero Domain’s apprenticeship slots to collapse more than twenty years earlier, and Wen Jia described how that battle led to hostility toward the Myriad Kingdoms Domain.

• Lin Bai declared to Li Tiankui that he was a warrior from the Myriad Kingdoms Domain, despite Yun Yihe and Zhao Hailan trying to conceal his identity.
• Lin Bai gave his name and Eastern Continent Records ranking, and Wen Jia checked the book and confirmed he was ranked five hundred and fifth.
• Li Tiankui said the Azure Hero Domain had lost fifteen hundred prodigies to a Myriad Kingdoms Domain sword cultivator more than twenty years earlier and vowed to avenge them.
• Wen Jia explained that the Eastern Continent Academy adjusted each Domain’s apprenticeship qualifications according to how many candidates passed its examination.
• Wen Jia said the sword cultivator’s battle caused apprenticeship qualifications across the Domains to plummet and made warriors from the Myriad Kingdoms Domain targets of hostility.

Lin Bai defended the Myriad Kingdoms Domain residence from Li Tiankui, stopping just short of killing him after learning that killing was forbidden in Exiled Immortal City. Lin Bai stayed at the ruined residence, and Wen Jia later came to visit him.

• Li Tiankui and the Azure Hero Domain martial artists blamed Lin Bai's domain for their losses and attacked him over the disciple qualifications.
• Lin Bai nearly pierced Li Tiankui's throat before Wen Jia warned that killing inside Exiled Immortal City would revoke his examination qualification.
• Lin Bai spared Li Tiankui, kicked him away, and warned him to stay clear of the Myriad Kingdoms Domain residence.
• Lin Bai gave Ji Qingqing a Sound Transmission Talisman and entered the abandoned Myriad Kingdoms Domain residence, while Wen Jia led the Great Spirit Domain martial artists away.
• After exploring the ruined manor, Lin Bai heard Wen Jia announce himself outside and invited him in.

Lin Bai waited for Wen Jia to bring Formation Daoists to repair the Myriad Kingdoms Domain’s residence, but learned that Guangyang Domain martial artists had beaten Wen Jia and threatened the builders. Lin Bai vowed to deal with them and ordered Wen Jia to lead him to the Formation Daoists.

• Wen Jia offered to find Formation Daoists in Southern City to repair the Myriad Kingdoms Domain’s residence, and Lin Bai accepted his help.
• Lin Bai declared that he would uphold his father’s reputation and make those who scorned the Myriad Kingdoms Domain regret it.
• After waiting an hour, Lin Bai found Wen Jia bruised and crying outside the residence.
• Wen Jia explained that Guangyang Domain martial artists had beaten him and warned the Formation Daoists not to repair the residence.
• Lin Bai demanded to know who had hurt Wen Jia, then told him to lead the way to the Formation Daoists.

Lin Bai went with Wen Jia to the Formation Master Estate to request repairs for the Myriad Kingdoms Domain's estate, but the Formation Masters refused and insulted him. Lin Bai severed Qiao Jian's arm and demanded that every Formation Master who refused to help leave behind an arm.

• Wen Jia led Lin Bai to the Formation Master Estate and explained that its Formation Masters repaired houses to earn a path to the Eastern Continent Academy.
• Chen Zhen refused to send a Formation Master to repair the Myriad Kingdoms Domain's estate, while Qiao Jian insulted Lin Bai and told him to leave.
• Lin Bai asked why the Formation Masters believed they could afford to offend his domain, then asked Wen Jia what punishment applied if no one died.
• Lin Bai swiftly severed one of Qiao Jian's arms with a sword strike.
• Lin Bai told the Formation Masters to leave behind an arm each if they would not repair the estate, and offered to sever them himself.

Lin Bai left the Formation Master Estate after Chen Zhen agreed to repair the Myriad Kingdoms Domain’s residence, then took Wen Jia to confront the Guangyang Domain over Wen Jia’s beating. After challenging the domain’s prodigies, Lin Bai faced Zhang Hua, who admitted he had injured Wen Jia.

• Chen Zhen agreed to send ten Formation Daoists to repair the estate in the Myriad Kingdoms Domain, and Lin Bai left with Wen Jia.
• Lin Bai told Wen Jia they would go to the Guangyang Domain’s estate to confront those who had beaten him.
• Lin Bai shattered the Guangyang Domain’s gate and challenged its gathered martial artists, while more than a dozen Life Extinction Realm powerhouses watched.
• Zhang Hua admitted he had beaten Wen Jia, and the old man in hemp clothes allowed Lin Bai to challenge any of the Guangyang Domain’s prodigies.
• Lin Bai called Zhang Hua forward to fight and warned him that he hoped his bones were as hard as his mouth.

Lin Bai challenged Zhang Hua at the Guangyang Domain residence and defeated him with one punch, without drawing his sword. When Guangyang Domain’s elders tried to stop him from leaving, Lin Bai agreed to fight more of their martial artists.

• Lin Bai ignored Wen Jia’s pleas and confronted Zhang Hua, who boasted of being one of the Ten Prodigies of Guangyang.
• Zhang Hua attacked Lin Bai with a powerful punch, but Lin Bai shattered his right arm with one punch and sent him flying.
• Lin Bai mocked Zhang Hua and prepared to leave with Wen Jia, while the watching martial artists and elders reacted in shock.
• Guangyang Domain’s Life Extinction Realm experts ordered Lin Bai to stop and threatened to keep him from leaving unharmed.
• Lin Bai accepted their demand for more fights and challenged the martial artists of Guangyang Domain to come forward.

Lin Bai returned to the arena and challenged Guangyang Domain's martial artists, defeating Chen Shaoning and more than three hundred prodigies with a single punch each. After no one else would step forward, a man in white emerged from the crowd and challenged him.

• Lin Bai reassured Wen Jia and invited Guangyang Domain's martial artists to fight him.
• Chen Shaoning attacked Lin Bai but was sent flying by a single punch and admitted defeat.
• More than a hundred Guangyang Domain prodigies took turns challenging Lin Bai, and he defeated each with one punch.
• Lin Bai taunted the defeated fighters and Zhang Hua, then prepared to leave when no one else came forward.
• A gloomy man in white stepped out of the crowd and challenged Lin Bai, drawing cheers from Guangyang Domain's martial artists.

Lin Bai faced Mu Song, the Guangyang Domain's top-ranked fighter, and defeated him with a single sword strike. The Guangyang Domain's final hope fell, leaving Lin Bai victorious at its residence.

• Mu Song challenged Lin Bai, revealing that he ranked ninety-eighth on the Eastern Continent Records and specialized in the Assassin's Path.
• Mu Song's perfected Gale Wind Intent and dagger strike cut Lin Bai's throat, forcing Lin Bai to retreat for the first time.
• Mu Song used his Martial Soul Secret Method, Thousand Shadows God Extinction Slash, to attack Lin Bai with countless afterimages and saber lights.
• Lin Bai drew the Demon Sword and used the Reaching Heaven Sword Art's Third Scroll and Single Word Sword Art to shatter Mu Song's attack.
• Lin Bai's sword strike sent Mu Song flying and left the Guangyang Domain defeated.

Lin Bai defeated Mu Song and the geniuses of Guangyang Domain, then returned to find the Myriad Kingdoms Domain estate repaired. Wen Jia revealed that his parents, Wen Cheng and Jin Lu, were executed as traitors and had been close friends with a sword cultivator from Myriad Kingdoms Domain.

• Lin Bai criticized Mu Song's flashy assassin techniques after defeating him, then left Guangyang Domain's estate with Wen Jia.
• The Guangyang Domain experts ordered their geniuses to return to cultivation and reprimanded Zhang Hua for causing the trouble.
• Lin Bai and Wen Jia returned to the repaired Myriad Kingdoms Domain estate, and Chen Zhen explained that its formations had restored the buildings.
• Wen Jia told Lin Bai that his parents were executed by the Eastern Continent Academy and that he had been exiled to Exiled Immortal City for life.
• Wen Jia revealed that Wen Cheng and Jin Lu had been close friends with a sword cultivator from Myriad Kingdoms Domain more than twenty years earlier.

Lin Bai learned from Wen Jia that Wen Jia’s parents, Wen Cheng and Jin Lu, were sworn brothers with Lin Duo and were executed by the Eastern Continent Academy. He resolved to investigate their deaths and seek Lan Ling and Kunxu for answers, then left Wen Jia with a record book and pills as Wen Jia returned to his work in Exiled Immortal City.

• Lin Bai promised to investigate Wen Jia’s parents and offered to help him, moving Wen Jia to tears.
• Wen Jia revealed that the taboo swordsman’s name was Lin Duo and that Lan Ling had told him his parents were Lin Duo’s sworn brothers.
• Lin Bai connected Lan Ling to the path toward Kunxu and suspected someone had deliberately erased Lin Duo’s traces.
• Wen Jia gave Lin Bai the Eastern Continent Records and accepted pills from him before returning to work in Exiled Immortal City.
• Lin Bai vowed to get Wen Jia out of Exiled Immortal City, feeling responsible for the deaths of Wen Jia’s parents.

After Lin Bai moved into the Myriad Kingdoms Domain residence, five renowned prodigies from Eastern Continent gathered to discuss his victory over Guangyang Domain and decided to challenge him. That night, Lin Bai studied Eastern Continent Records and assessed the strongest warriors he might face.

• Chen Zhen and the other Formation Daoists repaired the Myriad Kingdoms Domain residence, and Lin Bai moved in as news of his victory over Guangyang Domain spread through Exiled Immortal City.
• Feng Wenjun, Lu Heng, Xiang Shen, Hui Xi, and Shi Jiamu discussed Lin Bai at Welcome Immortals Restaurant and agreed to test his strength.
• The five prodigies left the restaurant and headed for the Myriad Kingdoms Domain residence.
• Lin Bai studied Eastern Continent Records, noted that he was ranked five hundred and fifth, and looked over the top ten prodigies.

Lin Bai studied the Eastern Continent Records and resolved to raise his cultivation before the master-disciple assessment. As Feng Wenjun and others arrived at the Myriad Kingdoms Domain estate, Luo Yong attacked Lin Bai over a blood feud from more than twenty years earlier.

• Lin Bai reviewed the top ten on Eastern Continent Records and noted that the first nine came from the Nine Great Domains, while Hei Luo Jian San came from the Nameless Domain.
• Lin Bai judged that he could likely rank among the top fifty but needed higher cultivation, and planned to reach the eighth or ninth level of the Yang God Realm before the assessment.
• Lin Bai sensed five auras entering the Myriad Kingdoms Domain estate and called for the visitors to reveal themselves.
• Feng Wenjun arrived with Lu Heng, Hui Xi, and Xiang Shen, while an unknown black figure appeared by the lake and challenged the Myriad Kingdoms Domain over an old blood feud.
• The black figure attacked Lin Bai with Nine Heavens Swordplay, and Xiang Shen and the others identified him as Luo Yong, the Heavenfall Sect's foremost genius.

Lin Bai faced Luo Yong, the number-one prodigy of Heavenfall Sect, after Luo attacked the Myriad Kingdoms Domain’s lakeside pavilion. Lin Bai caught Luo’s Nine Heavens Swordplay and sealed him beneath the lake, while Feng Wenjun and the others watched.

• Feng Wenjun, Lu Heng, Xiang Shen, Hui Xi, and Shi Jiamu watched the commotion from a secluded rooftop instead of intervening.
• Luo Yong revealed himself as the number-one prodigy of Heavenfall Sect of Yun Hai Domain and attacked Lin Bai with Nine Heavens Swordplay.
• Lin Bai caught the true sword among Luo Yong’s nine sword images, impressing Feng Wenjun and Lu Heng.
• Lin Bai overpowered Luo Yong and pinned him beneath the lake with a spiritual-power seal, saying he would release him after Yun Hai Domain and Heavenfall Sect apologized.

Lin Bai gave the hidden martial artists three breaths to reveal themselves as guests or leave, then hosted those who came forward at his lakeside pavilion. As the deadline continued, the mysterious A Ning arrived, and Lin Bai noticed the ordinary, bloodstained sword on his back.

• Lin Bai pinned Luo Yong beneath the lake and warned the hidden visitors to show themselves as guests or leave within three breaths.
• Feng Wenjun explained Lin Bai’s ultimatum, while Shi Jiamu, Lu Heng, and Xiang Shen refused to come forward as guests.
• Feng Wenjun introduced himself to Lin Bai and sampled the wine; Hui Xi soon joined them and greeted Lin Bai.
• A Ning entered the pavilion, claimed he had come for wine, and drank alone despite his formidable aura being absent from the Eastern Continent Records.
• Lin Bai noticed that A Ning carried an ordinary rusted sword with the scent of fresh blood on its blade.

Lin Bai drove off more than seven hundred prodigies who had trespassed in the Myriad Kingdoms Domain estate, suppressing them beneath the lake. He then confronted Lu Heng, Xiang Shen, and Shi Jiamu, the three strongest intruders, as Feng Wenjun, Hui Xi, and A Ning watched.

• Lin Bai used a secret art to raise his cultivation to the perfected Yang God Realm and attacked the hidden Lou Ting, defeating and suppressing him beneath the lake.
• Lin Bai defeated Yu Rusheng of the Great Jade Sect and threw him into the lake.
• Lin Bai rapidly defeated and suppressed more than seven hundred intruding prodigies from across the Eastern Continent.
• Shi Jiamu dismissed the defeated prodigies as weaker than the top hundred, while Xiang Shen regretted not joining Lin Bai’s drinking party.
• Lin Bai appeared before Lu Heng, Xiang Shen, and Shi Jiamu and challenged them; Feng Wenjun noted that all three ranked in the Eastern Continent Records’ top hundred.

Lin Bai fought Lu Heng, a prodigy from the Sword Domain who wielded the Overlord Sword Dao, after attacking the martial artists who had secretly gathered at the Myriad Kingdoms Domain Estate. Lu Heng unleashed his fiery sword arts, and Lin Bai countered with Three Foot Edge as their battle continued.

• Lin Bai attacked the concealed visitors and challenged Lu Heng, Xiang Shen, and Shi Jiamu to leave or face him.
• Lu Heng introduced himself as a Sword Domain martial artist and began fighting Lin Bai with his greatsword.
• Feng Wenjun explained Lu Heng's ranking and Overlord Sword Dao while Hui Xi and A Ning watched the battle.
• Lu Heng unleashed his perfected Blazing Fire Intent and the Sword Domain Lu Family's Wrath of the Fire God: Magma Hell.
• Lin Bai retreated from Lu Heng's scorching strike and countered with the Dragon Slayer Swordplay's first stance, Three Foot Edge.

Lin Bai found the flaw in Lu Heng’s Magma Hell sword art and defeated him, then challenged Xiang Shen and Shi Jiamu. Xiang Shen stepped forward to fight Lin Bai.

• Lu Heng trapped Lin Bai in Magma Hell, while A Ning told Feng Wenjun and Hui Xi that Lin Bai was waiting for an opening.
• Lin Bai spotted a gap that appeared after Lu Heng’s repeated sword attacks and pierced through it with Three Foot Edge.
• Lin Bai wounded Lu Heng, sealed his cultivation, and kicked him into the lake.
• Feng Wenjun and Hui Xi were astonished by Lu Heng’s defeat, and A Ning said Lin Bai had seized the opportunity he predicted.
• Lin Bai turned toward Xiang Shen and Shi Jiamu and asked whether they would enter the lake themselves; Xiang Shen declared he would fight Lin Bai.

Lin Bai defeated Xiang Shen, an assassin from the Nameless Domain, with his flying sword. Only Shi Jiamu remained, and Feng Wenjun said she would be Lin Bai’s true opponent.

• Xiang Shen launched a concealed assassination strike while Lin Bai was distracted, but Lin Bai dodged it and promised to defeat him in two swords.
• Lin Bai used the Sword Control Art and Primal Chaos Unification Sword Formation to strike Xiang Shen from behind and seal his cultivation.
• Lin Bai explained that Xiang Shen’s speed could not save him against a faster opponent, then kicked him into the lake.
• Feng Wenjun said Xiang Shen had lost because he neglected concealment and relied too heavily on a killing blow.
• Hui Xi and Feng Wenjun noted that Shi Jiamu was the last opponent, and Feng Wenjun looked forward to seeing her martial soul.

Lin Bai challenged Shi Jiamu after she dismissed him, and learned she ranked thirtieth on Eastern Continent Records. As they prepared to fight, Feng Wenjun and A Ning discussed who truly deserved to be called a heaven's chosen and vowed to live up to the legendary sword cultivator of more than twenty years ago.

• Shi Jiamu tried to leave after defeating Lu Heng and Xiang Shen, but Lin Bai blocked her with his sword.
• Shi Jiamu seized Lin Bai's Demon Sword and revealed that she was ranked thirtieth on Eastern Continent Records.
• Lin Bai unleashed his sword might and declared that no one could disregard the rules in the Myriad Kingdoms Domain's residence.
• Feng Wenjun joked with A Ning about how Lin Bai had dealt with Xiang Shen and Lu Heng, and A Ning praised Feng Wenjun for not acting arrogantly.
• A Ning and Feng Wenjun agreed that the legendary sword cultivator from more than twenty years ago was the only true heaven's chosen and vowed to become worthy of that legacy.

Lin Bai fought Shi Jiamu on the rooftop and defeated her with the second form of Dragon Slayer Swordplay, One Sword Rides the Wind. He sealed her cultivation and threw her into the lake, where she vowed revenge.

• Shi Jiamu attacked Lin Bai, and their battle wrecked the buildings around them.
• Shi Jiamu unleashed the Sacred Spirit Great Compassion Palm, but Lin Bai countered with One Sword Rides the Wind and sent her flying.
• As Shi Jiamu prepared to summon her martial soul, Lin Bai appeared before her, held his Demon Sword to her throat, and sealed her cultivation.
• Lin Bai threw Shi Jiamu into the bottom of the lake, and she swore to make him pay.